And the author's point is that Claude Fable+ is turning those increasingly into arguments, instead of merely following them and being helpful.
>A machine cannot "argue" with me, it doesn't want anything nor does it have beliefs or experiences.
Who cares if the argument is informed by some felt experiences or lived state or not? That's for the philosophers.
If Claude is writing out combative and argumentative responses that's enough to call it "an argument". And that's the problem the author describes. Not whether it's a "real" argument, or a simulated one.
In that sense, and for all intends and purposes, the machine can still argue just fine, since it's programmed to mimick interaction as if it HAD those beliefs and experiences. Same way it can write a poem about love, despite not having loved, or code, despite never having had used a computer. That's basically what it was made for: to act as an conscious person.